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It's great to see improvements in Emacs. Are there any developments on getting a decent terminal emulator? I use term but occasionally have to open GNOME termin
by reedlaw 10y ago
It's great to see improvements in Emacs. Are there any developments on getting a decent terminal emulator? I use term but occasionally have to open GNOME terminal when Emacs' term can't display something properly (like ncurses-based programs).
- armitron 10y agoI tried writing one in pure Elisp some time ago, but it was too slow. Maybe I'll give it another shot in C this time, on top of the new dynamic module support. The built-in terminal emulator is atrocious, both code-quality and feature-wise.
- sooheon 10y agoI agree with you as an end user that the features of all terminal emulators available in emacs are atrocious. Have my up vote, and silent support should you decide to really put some time into a better terminal for emacs.
- Per_Bothner 10y agoI wrote term mode but long ago stopped maintaining it. So other people have made hacks on top of my hacks ... One of my goals was to unify shell-mode (and related "comint" modes) with a proper terminal emulator, but had a hard time getting traction for this. So people added horrible hacks like color support to shell-mode, instead of improving term-mode. I mentioned this unification goal recently (see bug#22785 "comint/shell modes should be merged with term mode"), but people still don't get it. These days I'm back to working on terminal emulators, but using Web technologies (DOM, JavaScript, CSS). It's pretty cool, IMNSHO. Please check out DomTerm (http://domterm.org http://domterm.org).